Publicist and politician with Bündnis 90/Die Grünen and Europe Ecologie – Les Verts. He is a co-founder of the Spinelli Group, a European parliament intergroup aiming at relaunching the federalist project in Europe. Daniel Cohn-Bendit was a student leader during the May 1968 protests in France.
Solidarity with Ukraine has created strong momentum for greater European integration. But the challenges facing the Union are essentially geopolitical: the condition of any European rebirth is a radical change in relations with the Global South. Part of the series ‘Lessons of war: The rebirth of Europe revisited’.
The narrowly national agendas of the French presidential candidates, combined with a fixation on individuals over issues, damages the democratic process and runs counter to French interests internationally, argues Daniel Cohn-Bendit in interview with the journal “Esprit”.
